The 42nd iSPIRT RoundTable (RT) focused on an enormously interesting subject of ‘Nuts and Bolts of Selling to the US from India for First Timers‘. The session was meant for startups focusing on SaaS products (mostly in the B2B space) but the learning can be applied to any startup targeting the US market. This is the first in a 5 part series that captures the important learning from...
February 6, 2015
Nuts and Bolts of Selling to the US from India for First Timers : Part 1
06February
February 5, 2015
Refocus on design for our open source ERP project – ERPNext.
05February
If you have any doubt that design of everyday things is the most important cultural movement of our time, then you need to look up the most valuable company in the world today, which is ofcourse, Apple. We want our tools to work flawlessly and naturally. Open source projects are catching up too.Elementary OS promises to finally make the Linux Desktop accessible for everyone. Many open source web...
February 4, 2015
iSPIRT: Big ideas on little napkins. #iSPIRTturnstwo
04February
You’ve heard of famous napkin sketches such as the Southwest airlines route map or Robert Metcalfe’s Ethernet diagrams. But did you know that iSPIRT also started out as a series of such sketches? It was a late wintersun afternoon in December 2012. I was sitting in Bangalore’s Karnataka Golf Association across Sharad Sharma and Avinash Raghava. It was the day after a marathon few weeks of us...
February 3, 2015
A startup going global has to be stronger, better, faster than others – Bhanu Chopra #ifnotnowthenwhen
03February
Cue in to what Bhanu Chopra, Founder & CEO at RateGain, has to say about going global… Why do you encourage Indian companies to go global? Since the evolution of modern trade, commercial activities between countries and across the seas have been an integral part of our society. While earlier, it was all about access to spices, cotton and precious minerals, today it is primarily about getting...
February 2, 2015
If you have a B2B Product, here are 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50
02February
If you have built an B2B Product and have aspirations to take it to a global scale, here are the 5 reasons why you should apply for #InTech50. An opportunity to showcase, get validation of the concept and product direction, better understanding of business value in the enterprise from Global CIOs. High probability of being selected by Global CIO’s for pilot or early adoption. Possibility of being...
February 2, 2015
What you need to make a Sholay?
I am a great fan of analogies and for software products that we make, I always try to get an analogy as we grow through the journey. In a recent post I had shared the medical analogy of classifying how software products can be classified as vitamin, pain killer or vaccines. One of the favorites for we Indians is cinemas, whether hindi or tamil or telugu, and here is another analogy I would like...
January 30, 2015
40th #PlayBookRT in NCR on "Break the Barriers of Selling" by Deepak Prakash
30January
iSPIRT kicked off its first roundtable for 2015 on 17th January at the office of Eko India, Gurgaon. The PlaybookRT was led by Deepak Prakash, Former VP of Sales at Tally Solutions. He has led building the entire sales network bottoms up and was the #1 sales person at Tally. Under him, Tally evolved from direct selling to single-tier home grown network for dominance and further evolved into a two...
January 29, 2015
Fingerprint entry into cars? Read what this venture is doing…
29January
Great Tech Rocketships to the UK is a unique initiative to fast-track India’s most promising tech companies and talent to global success. Read more. Tell us about your venture – what problem are you solving, and why do you think it is an important problem to be solved? Identisafe is a biometric company and our product, Identisafe-09 helps to start and secure your car with your fingerprint...
January 28, 2015
3 questions to expect at your Product Marketing interview
28January
Perhaps you are an Engineer considering a lateral move into Product Marketing and watching out for opportunities within your company. Perhaps you’ve gone through an MBA and are anxiously awaiting interviews on campus. Whatever the situation, your first interview for a Product Marketing role can be an intense experience, especially if your past interviews have been all about technology. While each...
January 27, 2015
3 things I did right: Lesson 2 from a bootstrapped journey of 0 to 8 digit revenue
27January
We deployed over 1.62 million lines of code to add functionalities and security to the data. But one thing that doesn’t change is this: As an entrepreneur I play joker. I try – I fall – I stand up again for the next stunt. Whatsoever, I have to keep everyone entertained. This article is a part of a 3-article series, where I would share 3 most vital lessons as I grew as an...
